Kikuyu not corrupt.(Features) From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: May 27, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

SIR - As a former teacher in Kenya and a Kikuyu learner I take great exception to Roy Carpenter's outdated and misrepresentative claim that 'corruption is part of Kikuyu culture' (Corrupt Kenya, May 22).

Bribing by officials is common in airports across the global south. This is no reflection of Kikuyu culture but a common feature of public life in historically young and poor countries where state-society relations work very differently to ours. Kenyatta's Facing Mount ...

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